Shout out to a dead hero.

It was… 2001? Maybe a month or two on either side of 9/11, I don’t rightly remember, that my first webcomic, FLEM comics, suddenly gained a HUGE hit spike in the logs. Seems this site, Bartcop.com, had reposted this strip with full attribution. Thusly, I learned of Bartcop.

I emailed him, and he responded every time. We weren’t close bros, hell no – his political view were MUCH farther left than mine. We argued a little, in private. But I dug his style – he had no fucks to give about rousing some rabble on the blogospheres. He’d seen some shit, in his decades on this planet, and a lot of what he said was negative – but at least it was funny. I learned a lot from his updates – don’t bow to the haters. Mock them in public. And although I didn’t agree with everything he posted, his site has been a staple of mine, usually read once a month, for the last 13 years. A lot of laughs and a lot of things to think about.

I’m probably not going to respond in the comments here. I’m sure a fair amount of you will have nasty shit to say about him – hell, some of it’s deserved. He was a rabid punk rock superstar of political mockery. Like the Daily Show if they had more balls. He straight up flipped the bird to his detractors every day. He noted on his site, years ago, that he’d been diagnosed with leukemia. I knew he wouldn’t be around forever. Still… I learned tonight of his passing. And it hit me harder than I expected. A lot harder.

The world is a little bit worse off without him. That’s all I can say.

Discussion (22) ¬

I found you through S*Ps offhand mention weeks ago. And a pleasant surprise it was to find you.
I’m a big believer in trusting the tastes of sites I already approve of. So as you can imagine I went straight to BartCop.
How can the world be smaller when I didn’t know he existed an hour ago? And yet, it is.

It’s sad that some would feel the need to lash out at someone because they are of a differing political bent then they. I may disagree with the views, and if the site seems lashing out at conservatives in general and being rather insulting, I will stop visiting that site. There is no point in supporting a site you disagree with. However I can give respect to PEOPLE with whom I have disagreements with. I can also have empathy for the families of those I disagree with politically. We are all people after all. Though to be honest, I wouldn’t give two fu… a darn if every racist in this world came down with an extremely painful and debilitating disease that caused them to die in utter agony. I’m trying to be a good person, but there are just some things I can’t stand.

So you are saying that you wish for 99,99% of humanity to die in utter agony? You are one sick bastard, even lunatics like Pentti Linkola set the limit at some 95% and don’t wish for unnecessary suffering, during the extermination of surplus population.

-_- Not really. As I don’t care about their ethnicity. The end result might be genocide on a massive scale, but it isn’t because I hate them. It’s because THEY are so filled with hate that they cannot give it up.

Horsepoop. Now, you’re either just being stupid silly or you are an idiot. Nazis FORCED people into the gas chambers and ovens. French knowingly GAVE the blankets without letting the Native Americans know it was deadly. Those are not choices people make getting them killed. It’s murder. Someone asks for death, let them receive it.

This sounds like a discussion on “strict rights”… A person who attempts a rights-depriving crime (not a prohibition-style crime) is making known his stance that he does not recognize “rights” as a working theory. He therefore cannot appeal to them, and it becomes ethical to violate him in ways that would normally be under their protection. ie you can reverse a mugging and steal everything the mugger has on him, or kill him(her?) if you’d please. You COULD rape them, but I wouldn’t find it in good taste. YMMV.

Well poo. THink it was after 9-11 that we picked up a bunch of insane wads on le many years gone away forum thanks to bartcop. Think. fuck it’s been a goddamned long ass time Good man, good times, he will be missed.

I cannot lash out at someone I did not know, just felt some words of.. condolence? wisdom? might be fitting.

I keep friends on all spectrum of politics and all spectrum of racial tones, and see no reason why everyone should not do the same; it keeps one grounded in reality, as it is just as easy to slip to an extreme in one direction as it is the other. No one fits snugly inside a box of “conservative” or “liberal”, and the harder one tries to fit, the less grounded in reality one will be. Condolences on the loss of someone you obviously counted as a friend; loss is never easy but the hurting does fade with time.

Yes I like the video: “Everybody’s a Little bit Racist”. I think in general that I don’t like PC and I will make so called racist jokes at work. It is not meant to be offensive but I see it as like a First Amendment case. Hey I make fun of my own race, so I can’t be racist…too much.